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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center on Tuesday announced a new statewide alliance that will help standardize cancer care from Buffalo to Long Island, making it easier for patients in even remote places to plug into top specialists and clinical trials for the most advanced treatments. Roswell Park will provide treatment with partners across the state – at sites in Orchard Park, Niagara Falls, Williamsville, Jamestown, Olean, Ithaca, Oneida and Rockville Centre – and in Bradford, Pa. "The Roswell Park Care Network is about providing the very best cancer care and making it available in communities throughout the state," announced Dr. Thomas Schwaab, the Buffalo hospital's chief of strategy, outreach and business development. "If you're a patient who wants access to cutting-edge treatments, but also needs daily chemo or radiation, we can now provide that." The network partners Roswell with other medical care systems including Buffalo Medical Group, Catholic Health of … [Read more...] about Roswell Park stretching cancer care network across New York

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Nov. 19, 2018 / 4:52 PM GMT By Herb Weisbaum Some of the country’s biggest and most prestigious cancer treatment centers are using misleading testimonials that don't disclose their results aren't typical, according to a watchdog report. Out of 48 cancer centers, 90 percent used “deceptively promoting atypical patient testimonials,” according to the report, “Deceptive Marketing of Hope,” published last month by Truth In Advertising, a nonprofit consumer group. The report included high-profile cancer treatment names such as MD Anderson in Houston, Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, Dana-Farber in Boston, and Moffitt in Tampa, Florida. It also highlights Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), a for-profit hospital headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, that is the top-spender on cancer center advertising … [Read more...] about Consumer group says most U.S. cancer centers use misleading ads

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Health Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today’s Paper Advertisement Supported by ByDenise Grady Oct. 1, 2018 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to James P. Allison of the United States and Tasuku Honjo of Japan for their work on unleashing the body’s immune system to attack cancer, a breakthrough that has led to an entirely new class of drugs and brought lasting remissions to many patients who had run out of options. Their success, which came after many researchers had given up on the idea, “brought immunotherapy out from decades of skepticism,” said Dr. Jedd Wolchok, a cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. It has, he said, “led to human applications that have affected an untold number of people’s health.” Before Dr. Allison’s and Dr. Honjo’s discoveries, cancer … [Read more...] about 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 2 Cancer Immunotherapy Researchers

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... AlertMe STOCKHOLM — Researchers from the United States and Japan won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that help the body marshal its cellular troops to attack invading cancers. One cancer doctor said “an untold number of lives … have been saved by the science that they pioneered.” James Allison of the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University will share the 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize for 2018. Their parallel work concerned proteins that act as brakes on the body’s immune system. ADVERTISEMENT Their research, which has led to drugs that release the brakes on the immune system, constitutes “a landmark in our fight against cancer,” said the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, which … [Read more...] about James Allison, Tasuku Honjo win Nobel for cancer research

The 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize laureates. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT The winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine have been revealed in Stockholm. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation". 12:05 Receiving exciting news Tasuku Honjo, born in 1942 in Kyoto, Japan, was a research fellow in the US in the early 1970s and received his PhD in 1975 at Kyoto University. He has also been a faculty member at Tokyo University and Osaka University, and since 1984, a professor at Kyoto University. Here's a picture of Thomas Perlmann, the secretary-general of the Nobel Committee, speaking with Honjo just minutes before announcing his name to the world. Perlmann told journalists here in Stockholm that Honjo was very pleased. He does look quite happy: 11:58 'Thank you, thank you, wow' James P Allison was born in 1948 in Texas, where he also … [Read more...] about Live blog: Cancer researchers from US and Japan awarded Nobel Medicine Prize